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> I started to use vim because I needed a CLI editor that is powerful and bloat-free. Emacs seemed too much feature creep to me.

My pet peeve is that by default on most Linux distros nowadays, when I type in "vi" I get the Crayola® colours of Vim.

If I wanted Vim I would have typed in "vim". I'm editing a .conf file, not hacking the kernel source code.

(Also I have no need for all the colours of the default ls(1): a simple 'ls -F' will do for showing the characters "/@*" for their type. No need for the Technicolor®.)




Bill, is that you? I used to work for a guy who got really angry when we switched to linux and ls did color. I had to show him how to unalias ls.


Seems that some people are get angry in the other direction as I'm getting downvotes.




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